Haiti.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Rescue workers struggled to clear rubble and bodies Wednesday from the streets of Haiti's "flattened" capital, where government officials said the death toll from Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake may exceed 100,000.
-CNN

It seems that everyday there's a new catastrophe.
And we skim through these issues in the news like it's another daily crossword puzzle.
Our immediate difficulties and livelihood seem to suppress the realities of the world at hand.
As I went about my day, sleeping comfortably, awaking comfortably, eating comfortably, even breathing comfortably, countless Haitians were being displaced, seeking medical help that is in short supply, attending to fellow Haitians that were injured, all due to the recent earthquake that has left one third of the country affected by the aftermath.

It's hard to see God in times of injustice and unreasonable evil and death that plague the world today. But God is a God of justice. And He is active in the world we live in.
In the book, Good News about Injustice, Gary Haugen writes,
"The great miracle and mystery of God is that he calls me and you to be a part of what he is doing in history He could, of course, with no help from us proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ with lifeless stones, feed the entire world with five loaves and two fish, heal the sick with the hem of his garment, and release all the oppressed with his angels. Instead God has chosen us... to be his hands in doing those things in the world that are important to him.
When Christ ascended into heaven, he left behind only two things for the fulfillment of all his aspirations for the world: his Spirit and his followers. With the Holy Spirit we have been commissioned to demonstrate Christ's love for all the world: to disciple the nations, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to heal the broken and even to rescue the oppressed. When we sing that all children are 'precious in his sight,' we must not forget that he, of whom we sing, has declared himself to be the God of justice. Scripture describes the one who follows God:
He will deliver the needy who cry out,
the afflicted who have no one to help.
He will take pity on the weak and the needy
and save the needy from death
He will rescue them from oppression and violence,
for precious is their blood in his sight. (Psalm 72:12-14)"

Let's lift our prayers up to those affected by the earthquake.
The country has already been dealing with extreme destitution, famine, hunger, and violence for decades, and for such a country to be hit with an earthquake with such devastating effects is all the more disastrous for our fellow Haitian brothers and sisters in Christ.

"In truth each body... was actually a unique bearer of the very image of God, a unique creation of the divine Maker, individually knit within a mother's womb by the Lord of the universe. For as difficult as it was to imagine, each crumpled mortal frame had indeed come from a mother, one single mother who somewhere in time had wept tears of joy and aspiration over her precious child--a child endowed with the mysterious spark of Adam and an immortal soul. We would never number all the mother's children in these mass graves, but their Father in heaven had numbered even the very hairs of their heads."
-Gary Haugen

Let's remember Haiti. Not as another nation in this world, but as a nation with fellow children of God, fellow brothers and sisters of ours.

Much love and peace,
Hannah